A few-mode erbium doped fiber (FM-EDF) is fabricated using MCVD in combination with liquid solution, and the core and cladding diameters of the fiber are approximately 19.44 and 124.12 μm, respectively. The refractive index difference is 0.98%, numerical aperture (NA) is 0.17, and normalized cut-off frequency V at 1550 nm is 6.81. Therefore, it is a five-mode fiber, and can be used as gain medium of higher order mode. Furthermore, a long period of fiber grating (LPFG) is fabricated, which can convert LP01 mode to LP11 mode, and its conversion efficiency is up to 99%. And the first order orbital angular momentum (OAM) is also generated by combining LPFG and polarization controller (PC). Then, an all-fiber amplification system based on FM-EDF and LPFG, for LP11 mode and first order OAM beams, is built up. Its On-Off gain of LP11 mode beam is 37.2dB at 1521.2 nm. And the variation, which transverse mode field intensity of first order OAM is increased with the increasing of pumping power, is obvious. These show that both LP11 mode and first order OAM beams are amplified in the all-fiber amplification system. This is a novel all-fiber amplification, which can be used in the optical communication fields.
Xing Jianfei, Wen Jianxiang, Wang jie, pang fufei, Chen Zhenyi, Liu Yunqi, Wang Tingyun. All-fiber LP and OAM modes amplifier based on FM-EDF and LPFG[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2018, 16(10): .
